LATN 388/488
Readings in Latin Literature I:
Ammianus Marcellinus

Ammianus Marcellinus deserves fame as the last practitioner of the
great Roman art of secular historiography. We will read selections of
his Res Gestae and, in seminar-style discussions, explore the
important dimensions of his literary achievement: later Roman language,
history and culture, political machinations, military triumphs and
debacles, the challenge of imperial Christianity, and what being Roman
could still mean amidst it all.